Improvement in trace-buckles



M. T. BURKE.

\ -frRAcE-BUCKLE. No. 169,519. .Patentedmw z, 1875.

` @ML INVENTOR N. PEIERS. PHOTO-LITHOGRAPHER. WASHxNGToN D C UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

MELANCTHON T. BURKE, OF PORTSMOUTH, OHIO.

IMPROVEMENT IN TRACE-BUCKLES.

l Speciicaton forming part of Letters Patent No. 169.519, dated November 2, 1875; application filed July 7, 1875.

View of the sliding wedge of the buckle. Fig.

IV is a side or sectional View of the frame and sliding wedge, showing the parts with hametug F and trace Gr of a harness attached.

Letters designate corresponding parts in all of the gures. l

The trace-buckle is composed of.' two partsthe frame A, Fig. 1I, and the sliding wedge B, Fig. III. The frame A has twoside pieces, H, with cross-bars a a at the bottom, to which the haine-tug is fastened, with recesses K andprojections L, together with a cross-bar, c, on the top end, under which the trace passes.

he sliding wedge B has rolling sides with recesses N and Bauges O, a cross-top bar, d, with a tongue or stud, e, on its under side, and a second cross-bar, g, nea-r the other end, with a bead, t, on its under side, as shown in Fig. IV. The slidin g wed ge B, with its rolling sides, anges, and recesses, tits neatly into the frame Aof the buckle, when the top bar g ofthe wedge comes immediately in the center, as shown in Fig. I, and directly between the lower bars a a of the frame. Side and end loops may be attached so that it can be used for a teamharness.

In attaching the buckle to the harness or trace, the hametug is made fast to the lower cross-bars of the frame, the sliding wedge is put partly into the frame, the trace is then passed through between the lower cross-bars and the upper ones, and, by slightly bending the trace and pushing it forward, one of its holes receives the tongue or stud at the end ofthe Wedge. `The trace may then be pulled, when the sliding wedge enters the frame, and the trace is made fast. There is no danger of its becoming accidentally detached, and the operation for shortening or lengthening the trace is so easy that it may be altered in a moments time.

What I claim as my invention, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

A trace or harness buckle consist-ing of the frame A, having side pieces H, lower crossba-rs c a, top bar c, side anges K, and projections L, in combination with the sliding wedge B, having rolling sides, cross-bars d and g, recesses N, and -ilanges O, and a tongue or stud, e,'on its front cross-bar, substantially as herein specilied.

M. T. BURKE. Witnesses:

GEo. B. JOHNSON, F. G. BURKE. 

